I can't be the only one who finds blower style graphics cards attractive?

[TonyTurbo78]

Had two of these in crossfire myself. Clocked really well, and by far the best blower style cooler I've ever used, absolute bargain of a card back in the day.

Haha the same, had 2 in crossfire also, they were absolutely amazing.

 

[Gerard]

If they don’t sound like a cold morning start-up of an M1 Abrams tank, I prefer GPUs that vent heat outside of the PC case.

Temp wise it really didn't make much difference, people expected it to make a vast difference to inside case temps using an blower fan cooler vs an axial fan cooler, but when tested it was only something like 3-4c difference in a couple of videos I watched years ago about it.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Pretty sure it would make a decent difference in a much smaller case? For my previous 2 SFF cases, I'd always wanted to find a decent blower card. It seems like you pay more for that these days however. In the Antec, it really doesn't matter.

 

[hornetstinger]

Temp wise it really didn't make much difference, people expected it to make a vast difference to inside case temps using an blower fan cooler vs an axial fan cooler, but when tested it was only something like 3-4c difference in a couple of videos I watched years ago about it.

They didn't chuck out as much heat a modern cards though?

 

[Gerard]

They didn't chuck out as much heat a modern cards though?

Can't really recall how long ago it was, maybe 7 or 8 years back. But gpus's with a blower from nvidia were capped at something like 83c in the software before throttling, so still quite toasty.

 

[Zefan]

Can't really recall how long ago it was, maybe 7 or 8 years back. But gpus's with a blower from nvidia were capped at something like 83c in the software before throttling, so still quite toasty.

Isn't the chip temp a bit of a simplistic way of viewing it? I can make a raspberry pi 90c if I want to, but it's still low power and therefore low heat output. Better measure is TDP. Looking at the 7950 it's 200w (ref version) so the clocked ones are gonna be knocking on 300w.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

I remember those being HOT and LOUD!

I had the MSI 290X with their “Twin Frozer” Cooler and it ran HOT and LOUD.

I came from a 970GTX, then replaced the 290X with another 970GTX despite the VRAM shenanigans.

Well thats funny because I had 390 twin frozr and it was great so much so that I bought the same design for a 1080ti which was also great perhaps they revamped the design, loved those cards

If they don’t sound like a cold morning start-up of an M1 Abrams tank, I prefer GPUs that vent heat outside of the PC case.

For a small mITX case thats got to expel heat at all costs I can understand it but for regular case get a number of large fans and turn them slowly. Theres a direct ratio between fan size, speed, and noise. Small fans rapidly venting air are fundamentally noisy if its quiet the gpu ain't generating much heat which means its low spec, a media PC or the like which is fine for what it is but for a gaming PC thats not a sensible option

 

[TrojanWhore]

Well thats funny because I had 390 twin frozr and it was great so much so that I bought the same design for a 1080ti which was also great perhaps they revamped the design, loved those cards

They've been through a few iterations, and depends on how much power/heat it has to dissapate, but I had an AMD 6950 (the old 6950, not RDNA2!) with a Frozr which was a great card